You've been ruined by games all your life!

Chapter 41 The Fool's Gift
After a night of cleanup, the last player in the [Beautiful Friend] instance committed suicide by shooting himself. Before he died, he remained unmoved by the pile of "Extraordinary Traits" and "Sealed Artifacts" that Amon had placed in front of him.

"There's nothing I can do, the Doge of Venice gave me too much." That's what he said before he committed suicide.

The vortex belonging to "Pretty Friends" is still expanding, and the preparations for entering the instance have ballooned to astronomical figures. This strange phenomenon has attracted the attention of the senior management of Deepsea Company, and now penguins have set up barriers in front of the vortex to strictly prohibit players from entering.

Unlike other minor instances, and not falling under the category of "major events," this has become an unstable powder keg that could potentially cause a "deep-sea collision" between two worlds at any moment.

At this moment, Amon, who was still in the world of "Bel-Ami," adjusted his monocle on his right eye and sighed.

He failed to find the source of the castle's aura, and the players resisted his sweet-talking tactics with a strange "unity." After all, people in the mysterious world are afraid of death, but players are not. Entering the game is like entering a costume, and dying means you can be a hero again after leaving the instance.

Amon was naturally disappointed that his two main objectives had failed, but his trip was not without its gains. He learned about the situation in Chen Lai's world and that their "Deep Sea Game" was a mysterious power that could actually help him resist the pollution from the outer gods from the stars!

No, it's less about resisting pollution and more about "perfect mimicry"!
What is pollution? It's the rejection of one worldview by another!

And the players? They're like water; jump into a pond and they're a frog, leap onto a branch and they're a sparrow, burrow into a cesspool and they're…

This ability, this authority, will be the pillar that enables Amon to truly roam the stars. His gaze behind his monocle reveals a longing, a thirst for new "authority."

"We will have a chance to meet again."

Amon ripped off the protective shell of a player, disappeared from the world of "Pretty Friend," and returned to the mysterious world.

……

Chen Lai was playing games with Fu Heishen while sitting in the underwater warehouse.

They were playing "Double Blade Warrior," a very casual and educational game. In Chen Lai's words, since he had done everything he could, he might as well play the game first.

Although he was also afraid that his mother would suddenly wear a monocle after returning to reality, he thought the possibility was very small... right?
"Hey, hit that wild boar! Hit him!"

"The pig ran into a tree! Jump and strike! Jump and strike!"

"Fu Hei, you're so physically coordinated, why are you so bad at video games?"

Chen Lai laughed and cursed, as if he wanted to vent all the pressure in his heart.

【Double Blade Warrior】is a truly good game. You don't have to worry about dying. Unlike 【Deep Sea Games】, which is a money pit and a scam. I almost got scammed by it. I don't know which unscrupulous author came up with this garbage. It ruined my life.

The two struggled to complete the game, and when they checked the time, it was already the next day. Chen Lai opened the post and suddenly found that the matter had been resolved and Amon had returned empty-handed!

"Good! If they dare to invade, we will make sure they suffer a crushing defeat!"

Chen Lai shouted excitedly, "I love seeing A Meng get his comeuppance. This guy is completely irresponsible when he causes trouble. Someone should have taught him a lesson a long time ago."

Chen Lai let out a long sigh of relief as he swung the handle away. The excitement on his face faded, and a look of dejection appeared.

This time, Chen Lai spent 20,000 yuan, but he didn't make a single penny and even lost some money. This was indeed hard to accept for Chen Lai, who was in debt.

Just as he was feeling down, a cat's meow suddenly came from the coral next to the game console.

"Meow~" Chen Lai looked up in surprise and saw a black cat tail flash by. He walked forward and looked inside the coral, where he saw a complete invitation with a picture printed on it.

The painting style is exquisite and intricate, resembling a Victorian-era hand-painted picture, with every detail vividly rendered.

In the picture, a fighting cat with a sword is toasting with a black cat with a cane. The champagne in the glass is swirling. In a corner not far away, a black cat with a monocle on its right eye is squatting on the ground, drawing circles in frustration.

【The Fool's Handmade Invitation (Unique) (Closed): Open this invitation when you are ready. Destiny will arrive as scheduled, and we will create a bright era. Value: 0】

Chen Lai looked at the invitation, stroked the patterns on it repeatedly, and then placed it in the deepest compartment of the coral.

The Fool of the future extends an invitation to Chen Lai of the present, for He sees in the gaps of history variables that will affect the whole situation.

The sword-wielding fighting cat is undoubtedly Chen Lai, the cane cat is Klein, the fortune teller, and the black cat drawing circles is Amon… The Fool acknowledges him and believes he is qualified to be a partner, working together to find a way out for the mysterious world.

"Right now, I don't even have the qualifications to enter the mysterious world. I know too much, but I can do too little."

"The power of the gods is truly beyond my imagination to be able to stuff this invitation directly into my warehouse."

"A conceptual level of power, complete control over some kind of authority—is this what a god is?"

"Me, a lousy gamer, actually gained God's approval?"

Chen made a few self-deprecating remarks and then put the matter of the invitation out of his mind.

In any case, the Cthulhu world is temporarily behind him, and Chen Lai has gained a deeper understanding of the Deep Sea Game. Next, he needs to carefully plan which of the hundreds of vortexes are worth entering.

He needs power. Currently, the Six Eyes and the Heavenly Curse on his body are incompatible. If he can find something that can make them compatible, then Chen Lai's future will be limitless!

Fuheshen found it very amusing to watch Chen Lai alternate between frustration and elation.

Following Chen Lai to the Deep Sea Game, Fuheishen experienced many things he had never experienced before. It turned out that humans were not as devoid of humanity as described in the world of sorcery. On the contrary, their humanity shone far brighter than that of sorcerers!
"What kind of world will our next stop be?" Fuheshen asked Chen Lai, his head resting on his arm, bathed in the hazy light of the azure ocean.

He began to look forward to the future, and he became curious about what the next stop would be like.

Chen Lai glanced at him: "I don't know yet. I'll wait until I'm sure before I say anything. Anyway, there's definitely going to be a big event... but there's definitely no Cthulhu!"

"Are you afraid?"

"Who's afraid? That's called playing to our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses, a strategic shift. How can you call it being afraid of something like Deep Sea Games?" Chen Lai said emphatically.

"Okay, okay~" Fuheishen didn't care and fell asleep on the ground.

Seeing that he was asleep, Chen Lai didn't say anything more and chose to log out.

I've been playing this game for over half a month, and some of the supplies I bought should have arrived by now. It's time to go out and check things out.

(End of this chapter)